reached richer wealth 10 women in the world $ 387.6 billion, 9 of whom got their wealth or started their wealth stories by obtaining an inheritance either from a parent or their husband, except for one who got her wealth due to a divorce settlement from one of the richest men in the world.
Françoise Bettencourt Myers, president of L’Oréal, ranked first as the richest woman in the world, with a fortune of $75.8 billion, which she obtained following the death of her mother, Liliane Bettencourt, who was the richest woman in the world with $40 billion in 2017.
In second place came Alice Walton, the daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, with an estimated fortune of $61.6 billion. In 1992, following her father died, she and her three siblings inherited a fortune estimated at $8.2 billion. At 212 billion dollars now, according to Al-Eqtisadiah.
As for Julia Cook, she ranked third, with an estimated fortune of $ 58.4 billion, which she inherited from her husband, David Cook, who died in 2019. He owned 42% of Cook Industries, which operates in the sectors of industry, refining and distribution of oil, chemicals, energy, and minerals.
Jacqueline Mars, the heiress of the United “Mars” group of foodstuffs, ranked fourth, with a fortune of $ 39.3 billion, as she owns a third of the “Mars” group, which owns many companies producing sweets and chocolates such as Snickers and Mars, and the group also owns the brand of “M&M”. M” and other signs.
And Miriam Adelson came in fifth place, with an estimated fortune of $ 31.1 billion, which she obtained from her husband Sheldon Adelson’s share in the “Las Vegas Sands” company inherited in 2021 following his death.
And in sixth place came Gina Rinehart, with a fortune of $ 27.9 billion, as she works in the field of mining industries, as she inherited the “Hancock Exploration” company from her father, Lang Hancock, who died in 1992, and her share of the inheritance amounted to 75 million dollars, and since the nineties of the last century, it expanded Jenna’s mining business is in addition to her investments in media organizations, where she is currently the senior partner in Fairfax Media, the largest media company in Australia and New Zealand.
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And Mackenzie Scott ranked seventh with $ 26.4 billion through a divorce settlement following her separation from her ex-husband, billionaire Jeff Bezos, following a marriage that lasted 25 years.
And Susan Klatten came in eighth place, with a fortune of $ 25.1 billion, as she moved to the list of the richest people following the death of her father, Herbert Quandt, who saved the famous car company “BMW” from bankruptcy in the sixties of the last century, as she inherited with her brother Stephen in 1982, more than Half of the shares of “BMW” company, in addition to regarding 50.1% of the “Altana” company operating in the field of producing pharmaceuticals, medicines and chemicals.
And equally ranked ninth and tenth, Iris Fontbona comes with an estimated fortune of $ 21 billion and is the richest person in Chile, as she inherited her husband Andronico Luxic Abaroa’s empire in the mining and hotel sectors since 2005, and Abigail Johnson with a fortune of $ 21 billion, ranking No. 48 among The richest people in the world, with a fortune of $ 11.3 billion in September 2010, and in 2021, she inherited her father’s share in Fidelity, which manages assets of $ 3.7 trillion, which made her wealth rise rapidly.
